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Before the beginning of time, GOD WAS!! The entire Most Blessed Trinity always existed as ONE GOD!! GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON, and GOD the HOLY GHOST!! THREE DIVINE PERSONS all in ONE GOD!! Three, Separate PERSONS and yet One DIVINITY!!

Although this is enough to almost blow my mind, occasionally I like to try to think of God before He Created everything!! Imagine the existence of God in nothingness. In fact, God existed even before nothingness existed. Before nothing existed, nothingness existed. Before nothingness existed, GOD existed!!

God existed before the beginning of time!! There was no space, no air, no color, no light, no darkness, no Heaven, no substance, no matter, no nothing because even nothing is something.

God—The Most Blessed Trinity—just dwelt among Himself. And, to think of how the Three Separate Persons of God dwelt among Himself as One God—well, we, in our human minds, just cannot comprehend that!! The Three Separate Persons in One God—without any solid matter or solid substance (as Their Substance is Supernatural and Divine)—dwelling in the Joy and Beauty of Himself as One God is just unimaginable!! But, yet, I sense the Loneliness that The Three Separate Persons in One God experienced. Our One God—our Triune God—was Lonely in the sense that He wanted to Share His Beauty, His Happiness, His Joy with other beings. So, that is why He created Heaven and earth, the Angels, mankind, animals, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. Our Triune God was filled with so much Love and Joy that He wanted to share all this. But, He had no one to share it with. So, that is why He created the entire universe—Heaven and earth!!

Our Divine Triune God is a God of Love!! Honor Him, glorify Him, worship Him, love Him above ALL THINGS!! He waits for you to either deepen your love and devotion to Him or to return back to Him!! He is YOUR God, whether you believe it or not or whether you accept Him or not!! GOD EXISTS!! GOD WAS, GOD IS, AND GOD ALWAYS WILL BE!! THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, WORLD WITHOUT END!!!

I might be pretty blunt in this article, and I’m almost going to have to be because the people of the world are so lop-sided in their mentality!! Sin is, more and more, becoming a way of life. Sin is being treated as “good”, while holiness is being treated like “insanity”, when, in fact, it SHOULD BE the other way around!!

I’m going to focus this article on one word—-CHASTITY!! Chastity is a VIRTUE and it comes in three separate ways: chastity in THOUGHT, chastity in WORD, and chastity in DEED (or action)!! Although they are separate, they also go hand-n-hand. You see, if you have unchaste actions, chances are you probably also have unchaste words and/or unchaste thoughts. In fact, it’s very likely that you have unchaste thoughts because actions are based on thoughts. If you’re going to have impure and unchaste thoughts, most likely you will also have impure and unchaste actions!!

Chastity in Thought: The way you think has a lot to do with your surroundings and how you were raised. If you are raised in a family setting where sin and impurity is the #1 way of life, and the kinds of actions you see your family members do, those are the things that will stick with you in your mind. If you do not have a rock solid Christian upbringing, where you love God and hate sin, you will be prone to sin and unchaste thoughts.

If you, or your family members (if you’re still living at home), watch porn—that will infiltrate and damage your mind!! Your mind will be full of impure and unchaste thoughts and, trust me, those thoughts are going to be very, very, and I mean very difficult to resist!! Porn is addictive!!

Here comes the rock-n-roll part, now. Rock music puts in your mind all kinds of wild fantasies!! For some people, it can put actively unchaste fantasies (and I’m wording this in chaste terms) in their mind. It didn’t do such to me. But, it can, and it probably does, to others!! Rock music has A LOT to do with unchaste thoughts, words, and deeds because it is full of MIND CONTROL!!

And, let’s not forget all the EXTREME impure, unchaste actions that we see daily on our television screens—-a FANTASTIC reason to toss that tv right out the window!!

Chastity in Word: We all hear, and many of you say, unchaste, unclean, impure, foul-mouthed words all the time!! It’s becoming common place to hear such . . . unfortunately!! In fact, we all probably hear such words on every single television show aired, except for cartoons—children’s cartoons, that is.

The fact of the matter is, too, that, for a lot of people, foul-mouthed language has become part of regular, everyday, talk among them. It’s become a natural for them—they just speak that way without even thinking about it. It has become habitual.

Children are going to pick up the language of their parents. If they hear the parents using all kinds of impure, unchaste, foul-mouthed language, the children will think that it is normal. It won’t be their fault, at all, for thinking such, either. If the parents let the children watch, and hear, such filth on tv, the same applies.

If the children hang around other friends who use such impure, unchaste, foul-mouthed language, chances are the children are going to do the same thing because they want to feel, and be, accepted among their peers. They will talk the same language as their peers because it’s the “in” thing—it’s the “cool” thing. Not all of the children will be this way, though. Some of them will have enough sense of their own to not do that.

But, parents, this is your responsibility!! If you really, truly cared about your children and are concerned about their spiritual welfare, you will make sure that they are chaste in their words and that they should receive a just punishment if they are not. But, YOU are the role models of your children!!

Chastity in Deed: Well, there’s a lot that can be said about this one. If you do not have chaste thoughts, you are not going to have chaste actions!!

I’m going to bring up rock music, again, here. Rock music can instill in your mind the thoughts—the desires—to make love with someone of the opposite sex (or in some cases, the same sex), and if you are a young man and a young lady and not married—that is definitely pretty bad!! The same-sex stuff is far and beyond really bad!! That is against the laws of nature and the laws of God!!! PERIOD!!

If a young man and a young lady have impure actions against each other and she gets pregnant—what if she doesn’t want the baby? In this day and age, these kinds of mothers most likely do not consider adoption. So, chances are, this kind of young lady is going to have an abortion. And there ya go—-one sin leads to another!! In fact, it’s one bad sin leading to even a more worse sin!! So, the best way to prevent the conception of a child? Don’t have sex!! It is also the safest way to prevent the conception of a child!!

This kind of stuff can, and needs to be, held off until marriage!! This kind of stuff is the main reason why a man and a woman get married—to have children!! In fact, this is the reason why we do have MARRIAGE!! CHASTITY TILL MARRIAGE!!!

So, ladies!! You need to respect yourselves . . . more!! A whole lot more!! You need to dress modestly and you need to act modestly!! And you are not “boy toys” and so do not let yourselves be treated as such!! You need to be proud of your virginity!! I am!!

And, young men!! You need to respect yourselves, too, and the young ladies!! Treat your girl like a queen and not like a “boy toy”—because she isn’t. If you really love your girl, ask her to marry you, and then after you reach the altar and say your “I do’s”, you can do what husbands and wives are allowed, by God’s Divine Grace and Will, to do!!

But, parents, you have a major responsibility here!! It’s your job to teach chastity to your children!! Now, you are not going to be able to control their thoughts because that’s beyond your capability as parents. But, what you can control is what your children see and hear—from both you and their surroundings!! You can guard their eyes and their ears as much as you possibly can. You can prevent them from listening to rock music!! You can prevent them from watching porn. You can prevent them from having friends that might give them a very bad influence!! You have this control—your children may not like it, and probably won’t. But, this is your responsibility, as parents!! Be a good role model to your children because your children are going to say and do what they hear and see you do!!

Parents, if you teach your children chastity in thought, word, and deed, right from day one, they will carry this on with them from the moment they leave your house as adults. They will carry this with them wherever they go and they will teach their children what you have taught them!! They will understand the importance of chastity and they will love chastity!! But, parents, you must be chaste, too!!

Back in late 1983 or early 1984, when I was in eighth grade, each student had to make some kind of booklet, as an assignment. Well, my little booklet was about my experience at my first Rosary Vigil at the apparition site of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers!! I am going to type, word-for-word, what I wrote in that little booklet because it is my testimonial. If I have any comments to be made, I will put them in parentheses and in blue. My eighth grade teacher gave me an “A” on this booklet and she said that “this can be a keep sake” that I can look back at in years to come. She was right!! Please keep in mind that I was 14 years old when I wrote this. So, this is the innocent writing of a 14 year-old girl. You can laugh when you’d like, because some of this is kind of funny!! Please enjoy!!

It was during the morning of August the 12th. of the year 1983. My mother was checking to see if we both had our things that we’d need for this long ride we were going on.

My father just pulled in the driveway after just coming back from Kroger’s. My grandma has been here since last night, watching my brothers and trying to keep them out of my mother’s hair.

Finally, it’s time for my mother and I to go to Miracle Mile with our luggages and food. (Everyone had to meet there because this was where the chartered bus was going to pick us up at.)

When we got there, people were already loading the bus. I’m not sure what the bus was called. It may have been something like “Speedway”. (It wasn’t called that.)It’s got one of those bathroom’s in the back of the bus where you have to lock the door to turn the lights on.(Okay, I’m laughing at this comment!!) When I first got on the bus, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this long ride all of the way up to Bayside (Flushing), N. Y.

Anyways, the bus was to go up to Adrian, Michigan to pick up some people there. So, here we go, about an hour away from Toledo. We went up and down these alleys and couldn’t find find the people. (Keep in mind, this was a chartered bus—I’m about to fall over laughing at this thought!!) One of the drivers there (you see, the drivers take turns driving in the night) said that the people that we were suppose to pick up, were all the way back in Toledo at the Miracle Mile, waiting for us. (I’m laughing so hard I about have tears coming out of my eyes!!) So, everybody kind of complained, but we went back there and got them. Then, we drove all night on the bus. We stopped twice. One was 11:00 p.m. and the other was 3:00 a.m.

On the way there, we said our Rosaries and they showed us different, miraculous, pictures that were taken in N.Y.

We drove all night and then at about 6:00 a.m., we stopped for breakfast for about an hour. Then, we got back on the bus and we continued driving until about 2:30 p.m. We got to our motel, just about 15 minutes away from the Vatican Pavillion Site. Then, at 6:00 p.m. we had to meet back at the bus and go somewhere for dinner.

We had to be at the Holy Grounds at 8:30 p.m. because that’s when the Vigil’s start. We got there around 7:30 p.m. and we individually had to say an “Act of Contrition”. Vigil’s start at 8:30 p.m. (They now begin at 7:30 p.m., as directed by Our Lady.)My mom, my Aunt Carmen, and her friend and I had to find a place to put our chairs and things. Then from 8:30 – 9:00 we had to walk around the Site in a parade form, with other people, and with lit candles as we were saying the Rosary. Someone, way ahead of us, was carrying the a beautiful statue of Our Lady. Then, from 9:00-11:00 p.m. we had to sit and constantly pray the Rosary aloud. I might also like to say that Veronica (the seer) wasn’t there. If she isn’t, then one of Our Lady’s Workers will tell you when to kneel, in the Presence of Our Lord and Our Lady. If you go there and Veronica isn’t there, and if you look up in the sky, you will see the Heavens open and that is when Our Lady and Our Lord come down. (Note: As I found out several years later, not everyone sees this!! I did!! It was a very cloudy night and this took place AFTER what I am about to reveal next. This opening took approximately 15 minutes and it started off in the sky slightly behind my left shoulder!! It was quite an INCREDIBLE sight to see!! It was as if SOMETHING MAGNIFICENT was coming the clouds were making way for IT!! After the clouds were done parting, there was no cloud left in the sky!!)

It was about 9:30 at night (shortly beforehand, I heard this interior voice say to me: “Keep your eyes on the skies” and so I did)and I looked up at the Heavens and saw two tiny openings.(They were circular openings of the same circumference right next to each other). Something, as I described as a Cape, was coming down (through) one of them. I looked away, then I looked back, and to my surprise, it was Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary!! You couldn’t see Her Face or Feet, but the only thing that could be seen was Her Figure, Her Spirit. (She looked very similar to THE MIRACULOUS PICTURE OF OUR LADY IN THE SKY, which is seen here.)

The next thing, this lady (Aunt Carmen’s friend) was telling me the next day, that she smelled a strong scent of perfume (coming from me) and she said she was going to ask me what kind of perfume it was. My mom said that I wasn’t wearing any. My mom said that every time she took a picture, she may have smelled roses. Then, the most exciting thing that happened was that my mother gave me her mother’s Rosary . My mother had some that I could choose from to take with me. Anyways, the one I took, well it’s chain, the Rosary chain, turned to a gold color!! (Honestly, the most exciting thing that happened was seeing Our Lady, but I was just a girl writing this!!) My mother looked at it when we got home and told me that it was indeed a gold color!! She also saw that Jesus, on my Crucifix of my Rosary, turned to a copper color. She was telling us, too (my grandma and I, that is)that that night we got home, my father had pulled the bureau out and my mother said that she smelled roses coming from that pace. (Roses may come from St. Therese the Little Flower). It’s like Our Lady’s saying: “I was with you there, and I’m with you now, and wherever you go.”

I also never did mention that during that pilgrimage we visited some Shrines and we went to Mass both Saturday and Sunday.

Normally, I wouldn’t talk about myself on here. But, this time I am going to because I want you all to read my testimony of how Our Lady of the Roses (http://www.smwa.org/) changed me!!

Trust me, rock-n-roll music is an absolute addiction!! You know how I know? I’ve been through it!! You will never know just how addictive that MESS is unless you have been an avid listener and then give it up, totally!! I’ve done just that and so I CAN say, and do say, that rock music is a complete addiction!!

Since my early childhood years till the year 1991, I loved rock music!! I also had a deep love for Jesus, and all of Heaven, at the same time, too. (But, God and rock-n-roll just do not mix!!) My parents took me to my very first rock concert when I was around the age of 5!! It was at The Ohio State Fair and it was either The Bay City Rollers or The Osmond Brothers in concert—I can’t remember which one because the other one of the two I saw the following year, once again at The Ohio State Fair!! Yes, I liked both of those groups by the age of 5!! I didn’t go back to rock concerts until I was a little bit older.

By the age of 11, I was definitely into listening to KISS!! For those of you who do not know this, KISS stands for “Knights in the Service of Satan” and that is SCARY!!!! I remember buying either one of their records—or maybe it was an individual member of the band’s record—at a garage sale at that age. I listened to their records (the one’s I had of them, anyway) on my stereo in my bedroom for hours. The devilish singing and all that boom-boom, boom-boom—-I do not know how my mother tolerated that stuff!! In fact, if I was a mom, there would be absolutely no way that any of that kind of devilish NOISE would even be SEEN or HEARD in my house!!

Then, when I was around the age of 13 1/2, my mom and I were both introduced to the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers and soon afterward, we attended our first Rosary Vigil (that was the only Rosary Vigil that my mother went to). ( http://www.smwa.org/) I will have a separate testimony about Our Lady of the Roses. However, it was all due to the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses that I, out of my own free will and decision, without anyone telling me to do this—I broke every one of my records (including the KISS ones) over my knee and tossed them into the garbage!! It wasn’t until several years later that I was told I could have just scratched them with a key, because breaking them over my knee could have caused particles to go flying in the air and maybe even cause injury—like eye injury or something. But, I was only 13 or 14 at the time I did this. So, the important thing was that I destroyed these evil recordings of satan!!

However, I was then entering my high school years and then came the addiction of liking pop rock stars such as Duran Duran, INXS, Kajagoogoo, Depeche Mode, Rick Springfield, The Power Station, and numerous other rock bands. And there was Madonna!! She was just getting her start in the rock star world!! Her and her “Lucky Star” song!! Or what about her “Like a Virgin” song or “The Groove”—those had some fantastic, addictive beats!! Often times, when her songs would come on the radio—and by this time, in my teenage years, I was so much more interested in listening to rock music on the radio rather than cassette tapes—and I would be alone in my bedroom listening to them, I would try to imitate her dancing styles a little bit. I would also imagine me dressing like her!! You all know how immodest she dresses and how immodest her actions are!! It’s hard to believe that, at one time, she wanted to be a Nun or a Religious Sister!!

And, let’s not forget all the rock concerts I’ve been to. I can’t even remember who all I’ve seen. I did see INXS a couple of times—and I met a couple of the members after one of the concerts. I’ve seen The Power Station, Rick Springfield, The Monkees (on their reunion tour), to who knows who all I saw!! I think I’ve seen 60 or more rock bands/singers, including opening acts. Oh yeah, then there was The Romantics and Adam Ant!! And yes, I even saw Def Leopard, but I won’t say how I got in to the concert!! I can tell you that after every concert, I was about deaf for three days or so!!

I used to listen to rock-n-roll, mostly pop rock but some hard rock every-now-and-then, on the radio for hours and hours and I mean hours during my high school years!! I can’t remember if this was during my later grade school years, or my high school years, but every morning for some time, around 6:30, while getting ready for school, my oldest brother would play the song “Pump Up the Volume” by MARS. It wasn’t even really a song—just a bunch of devilish noise with a few words every now and then. For a long time, I could not STAND that noise!! In fact, I hated it. But, you know what? As odd as this sounds, I hated it so much that I actually began to like it!! I was getting used to hearing it every morning at 6:30!!

But, let me tell you all this much: If you are all so convinced that rock-n-roll is great and fine and that it’s not addictive, YOU ARE SO VERY WRONG!!!! If you are an avid rock music listener right now, you cannot say that it is NOT addictive until you completely STOP listening to that noise!!

I tell you this because Our Lady of the Roses (http://www.smwa.org/) changed me!! She cured me of this addiction, PRAISE GOD AND BLESSED BE GOD FOREVER!!!

Please let me tell you how this happened: As you all know, in my high school years I was so addicted to the pop rock stuff. I’d come home from school and when I wasn’t eating, doing my homework, or praying my Rosary (yes, I prayed the Rosary daily since finding out about the apparition site of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers back in 1983, when I was around 13 1/2 years old), I was listening to pop rock music on the radio!! I spent hours upon hours doing such—every day!!

Then came the turning point!! On January 31st., 1991 my mother was killed in a car accident, leaving me to be the oldest and the only girl in the family. A couple of weeks later, I really wanted to go back to the apparition site of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers (http://www.smwa.org/). I always wanted to go back to the apparition site, but my mother either never let me or she never told me that my Aunt asked her to ask me if I wanted to go back, saying that she—my Aunt—would care for me while there with her. My mother had her reasons. But, being that God called my mother Home to Himself, and may Almighty God have Mercy upon her soul, I had the freedom to return back to the apparition site.

So, I immediately reserved a seat on a chartered bus for a June Rosary Vigil. This was in February, 1991. Being that this particular Rosary Vigil was to be my second time at the apparition site of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers (http://www.smwa.org/), as the first time I was there was in 1983, I chose to do something for a penance beforehand. I sort of started my own tradition at the time, which I haven’t kept over the years though. 😉 The first time I went to a Rosary Vigil at the apparition site, back in 1983—well one week beforehand I gave up something as a penance for my sins, to sort of prepare me for the Rosary Vigil and for being in the presence of Jesus and Our Lady!!

So, based on that decision, the second time I went, which was in 1991, I chose to do a penance and give something up one week prior to that particular Rosary Vigil. Being that I was so heavily into listening to rock-n-roll, I decided that that was going to be my penance for the week—to give up listening, willfully, to all forms of rock music (and that included going to movies, too). (By-the-way, during these years, I was also dating several guys and going to night clubs with either them or my cousin.)

I decided, on one specific day—I think it was a Saturday—exactly one week before that Rosary Vigil at the apparition site of Our Lady of the Roses (http://www.smwa.org/)—I decided that I was going to absolutely STOP listening, willfully, to all forms of rock music!! When that chosen day came, THAT WAS IT!! I QUIT LISTENING TO ROCK MUSIC COLD TURKEY!!! I made up my mind that it was going to be on THAT DAY and no beatin’-around-the-bush about it!!

During that week, the bus trip, to the apparition site, got canceled because there was not enough people signed up to go. So, I knew that I had a choice: I could either return back to listening to rock-n-roll or keep it as a penance until the next time I would go to the apparition site. I decided to keep it as a penance for my sins until I went the next time, which was in September of 1991, I think it was. So, I kept it as a penance for at least a couple of months!!

Now, I have to admit that I did, at that time, switch over to listening to country music—mostly country western. Mainly I listened to Dolly Parton, though. But, it wasn’t rock-n-roll.

Also, during my teenage years, my bedroom was full of posters and pin-ups of various rock bands/singers!! I mean, my walls were so full that I actually began to put pin-ups on my ceiling!!

Some time, in 1990 or early 1991, before giving up rock music, I used to keep a scrap book full of pictures of the pop rock band, INXS. During the first week that I completely gave up rock music, I opened up that scrap book and these are the words that came to my mind when I saw those same exact pictures of INXS: “Oh my God!! I used to like that band?!!” I saw those same exact pictures of INXS in a completely, totally, different way then I EVER saw them before!! There was a complete ugliness about them!! All those years I was completely blinded to the evil that they participated in—the evil of rock music!! It was a complete rude awakening to my soul when I saw them in a completely different way then I have ever experienced before!! And, that first week that I gave up listening to rock-n-roll, I experienced a peace, in my soul, that I never experienced before!!

Ever since that week, back in 1991, I have been cured of my addiction to listening rock music!! I have never had that desire to listen to it in the way that I listened to it back then. My music genre favorites have completely changed!! ALL THANKS BE TO ALMIGHTY GOD AND TO OUR LADY OF THE ROSES!! (http://www.smwa.org/)

So, yes. Rock-n-roll IS an addiction and it is MIND CONTROL!!! YOU can be cured of it!! It puts you in a trance-like state of being because it has the ability of taking you out of reality. It did to me, so I know. Get out of that MESS!! Stop listening to it because it is a soul destroyer!!! You may not realize it now, but trust me—it truly IS a soul destroyer and an ADDICTION!! But, you can leave that mess behind and you will be at peace!! TRY IT!! IT WORKED FOR ME AND IT WILL WORK FOR YOU!!!

This beautiful story of grace, peace and redemption opened publicly on June 18, 1970 when the Mother of God visited Veronica Lueken on the grounds of the old St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside, New York and later at the Vatican Pavilion site (blessed by Pope Paul VI) in Flushing Meadows Park, New York. Beginning in 1968, St. Theresa the Little Flower prepared Veronica for these Heavenly apparitions.

It was at the original St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside, New York, that Jesus and Mary would regularly appear to Veronica from 1970 to 1975. The Virgin promised that a miraculous spring of curative waters will one day erupt on these grounds (just like in Lourdes, France) and that She will also appear over this church building (May 17, 1986). Also, it is here that will rise the magnificent basilica prophesied by Our Lady.

For 25 years, the Virgin Mary and Her Divine Son would appear to this mother of five children during Rosary Vigils until her passing in 1995. At the request of Our Lady, a Sunday Holy Hour for the Pope and priests was also established.

Over 300 comprehensive messages packed with guidance and wisdom for these latter days were transmitted through this seer named by Heaven, Veronica of the Cross.

The lay Order of St. Michael, a vibrant community of dedicated, celibate men have been appointed by Heaven to lead this global mission. Our Lady has prophesied that from this lay order will emerge the full-fledged religious Order of St. Michael, an order founded on tradition, which will also include women. The Vatican Pavilion Site

The prayer services have been held here since May 1975. Jesus and Mary regularly appeared here to Veronica of the Cross from 1975 to 1994. Michelangelo’s Pieta was exhibited here during the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair and it was on October 4, 1965 that Pope Paul VI capped off his historic journey to the United States with a visit here, bestowing an Apostolic Blessing to the multitudes. Our Lady has also stated that curative waters will erupt and a magnificent basilica will be erected at the original site of St. Robert’s.

The Vigils and Holy Hours continue to this day at the Vatican Pavilion inspired by Our Lord’s promise: “We have made Our home upon these grounds.” Cures and conversions abound and for countless pilgrims, faith and hope have been restored. We invite you to join us.